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The most
successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure
uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other
possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are
viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Allan Bloom The Closing of the American
Mind

Organic Portals: The "Other Race" - Probably the
most important material ever brought forth by the Cassiopaeans. -
At the bottom of
this is perhaps the answer as to the source of one of the most
enduring debates of human history i.e. good versus
evil.Why is it that
there is so much strife in the world, why are so many divided over
the promotion of war or peace, respect or disrespect, environmental
protection or destruction, in short, a purely material self serving
outlook or a spiritual serving of others outlook?
-Perhaps we are
getting close to the answer, for the truth would seem to be that
there is not and never has been a homogenous “we”
(the human race) on the planet, “we” are not all alike,
“we” do not see the world in the same way,
“we” are not just a divided race, we are two
different races.

General Ashcroft's Detention Camps: Time
to Call for His Resignation - Now more Americans are also going to
be dispossessed of every fundamental legal right in our system of
justice and put into camps. Jonathan Turley reports that Justice
Department aides to General Ashcroft "have indicated that a
'high-level committee' will recommend which citizens are to be
stripped of their constitutional rights and sent to Ashcroft's new
camps." Comment: This is not a joke, folks.
Time to write your representatives. Which one of YOUR relatives is
going to be detained? Will YOU be the first on your block to go? Of
course, everyone thinks "no ME!" Don't kid yourself.

A Jonathan Turley column in the national edition of the August
14 Los Angeles Times ("Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish
Vision") begins: "Attorney General John Ashcroft's announced desire
for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has
moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a
constitutional menace." Actually, ever since General Ashcroft
pushed the U.S. Patriot Act through an overwhelmingly supine
Congress soon after September 11, he has subverted more elements of
the Bill of Rights than any attorney general in American history.
-

As Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe said on ABC's Nightline
(August 12): "It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the
amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American
citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O'Hare
Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked
up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government
says he's connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That's
not the American way. It's not the constitutional way. . . . And no
court can even figure out whether we've got the wrong guy."

Secret Hearings Conceal 9/11 Terrorist Links to Congress
& White House- While
researching various sections of a related story surrounding growing
evidence that the FBI and other government entities are more
closely linked to pre-9/11 insider trading than previously was
thought, it was found that the Secretary of State and two other
State Department officials, the Central Intelligence Administration
(CIA) Director, three senators, and a congressman actually met with
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Security Agency (ISI) chief, who
had wired $100,000 to fund the operations of terrorist hijacker
leader Mohammed Atta just prior to the attacks. But worse, actual
evidence is available that the White House and CNN doctored the
transcript of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s
damage control press conference, held at 4 pm that afternoon on May
18, 2001.

WEAPONS OF THE OCCULT WAR- Troy Southgate
examines late Italian philosopher Julius Evola’s Men Among
the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical
Traditionalist:

And
now we come to one of the most interesting chapters of the book, in
which Evola questions whether the various areas of human existence
have been affected by higher forces. In other words, by those of
the supernatural or occult dimension. The decline of the West, in
particular, is said to be a direct result of the hidden forces at
work. Evola explains: "The occult war is a battle that is waged
imperceptibly by the forces of global subversion, with means and in
circumstances ignored by current historiography. The notion of
occult war belongs to a three-dimensional view of history: this
view does not regard as essential the two superficial dimensions of
time and space (which include causes, facts, and visible leaders)
but rather emphasises the dimension of depth, or the
‘subterranean’ dimension in which forces and influences
act in a decisive manner, and which, more often than not, cannot be
reduced to what is merely human, whether at an individual or a
collective level."

This seems clear enough. Indeed, the current of which Evola
speaks transcends the governmental domain and concerns the forces
which lie far beyond the purely exoteric plane. By "subterranean,"
Evola is alluding to the fact that such activity takes place not
within the human subconscious, but as part of a deliberate plan
which has been meticulously formed by capable and intelligent
agents of subversion. But this third dimension should not be seen
as some kind of ridiculous or convenient fantasy designed to
account for the erosion of Tradition, it is a concept which is
fully steeped in reality.

He
cites the Classical idea in which the forces of the cosmos are
waged against the forces of chaos: "To the former corresponds
everything that is form, order, law, spiritual hierarchy, and
tradition in the highest sense of the word; to the latter
correspond every influence that disintegrates, subverts, degrades,
and promotes the predominance of the inferior over the superior,
matter over spirit, quantity over quality."

U.S has designs on Controlling the World -
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, accusing the United States of
coveting Middle Eastern oil and believing it should "control the
world," said Monday that such U.S. designs are starting to dawn on
European leaders and should concern all the world's
citizens.

Comment:We
know there is a
consortium out there which controls things from
behind the scenes. Through this consortium, the fabled "One World
Government" has been established. Let's look at how this is
presented in the US and how it is used to perpetuate the Matrix
Control System.

First, the phrases "One World Government" and "New World
Order" are now starting to carry the same emotional spin which was
once reserved for "communism" and "socialism". Of course, one way
this was achieved was by tying the idea of "One World Government"
to the idea of communism or socialism. That way, all the psychic
fear instilled in the fifties and sixties could be directly
transferred to this new, manufactured threat that is not a threat.
So this is the first clue that something fishy is going on. When
that much psychic energy is being mustered, you know it ain't
good.

There is a very lively "meme" in certain sections of the US
that the UN is the NWO and that the UN is evil. The assumption
behind this idea is that the US is not part of the NWO and that the
US is not evil. Or that those people in government who are against
the UN are good. Which leads to the idea that by somehow guarding
the autonomy of the US vis-a-vis the UN, the aims of the NWO are
thwarted. It promotes the idea that any curtailing of the
independence of action of the US is a threat to "our"
"liberty".

Can
we take any of these ideas seriously from an esoteric
standpoint?

When we look a little more closely, we see that what this
actually means is that the UN works to circumscribe the power of
the US government to do as it wishes with the rest of the world. It
reigns in the neighbourhood bully.

So
where might this meme of "UN as NWO" originate?

Let's think about this.

The
consortium doesn't need the UN. It can work with the governments as
they exist. Of course, once the UN exists, they can use it, too.
But it is incorrect, in my opinion, to see the UN as the specific
manifestation of the NWO or as a worse manifestion of the NWO than
any other government.

It
is probably closer to the truth to say that the Consortium is
itself the One World Government. And all the rest is emotional
manipulation. So by siding with one or the other and buying into
the emotional drainage set off by labels such as NWO, you are
attaching yourself to the feeding tube.

The
Consortium is real. "NWO" or "One World Government" are not only
hooks to drain emotional energy, they divert our attention from the
fact that the U.S. is the Capital of Service to Self. It is
becoming increasingly obvious that a "straw man" has been created
for the U.S. to "knock down," all the while the U.S. prosecutes its
agenda of becoming the New World Order itself. It is the political
arm of
the Beast.

US in disarray over Iraq as Powell backs call for
weapons inspectors - Colin Powell, the cautious-minded US
Secretary of State, said he supported the return of UN inspectors
as a "first step" towards neutralising Saddam Hussein's weapons of
mass destruction. Mr Powell's words directly contradicted a series
of speeches by Vice-President Dick Cheney, who said the time for
inspections was over and that a pre-emptive strike was the only
viable solution.

US blocks deal on clean energy - An
"unholy alliance" of oil exporting countries and the United States,
backed by Japan, succeeded in frustrating all attempts to set a
target and managed to include clauses promoting nuclear power and
fossil fuels that are the main cause of global warming.

NASA Study Finds Rapid Changes in Earth's Polar
Ice Sheets - Recent NASA airborne measurements and a new
review of space-based measurements of the thickness of Earth's
polar ice sheets concludes they are changing much more rapidly than
previously believed, with unknown consequences for global sea
levels and Earth's climate.

IDF Chief of
Staff Moshe Ya'alon's controversial remarksearlier this week were "true and correct" and described "the
situation as it is," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday.
Ya'alon, both at a conference organized by the chief rabbis on
Sunday and in an interview with Ha'aretz Magazine, described the
Palestinian threat as "cancerous," said the current Palestinian
leadership does not recognize Israel's right to exist, and that a
unilateral withdrawal from the territories would constitute giving
in to terrorism. - Regarding the possibility of an American attack
on Iraq, the prime minister said he believes this should be
discussed only in closed forums, rather than in the media. The
U.S., he added, has also requested that Israel keep a low profile
on this issue.

Comment:I
discovered an interesting little set of facts yesterday. Did ya'll
know that anti-Semitism - as "practiced" by the Nazis, actually
began in America? Did you know that the research institute that
established the "fact" that Jews were "unacceptable" was
created and funded by Rockefellers and
Carnegies?

State loses track
of 302 abused or neglected kids- The fact that
hundreds of Michigan foster children are missing disturbs some
child advocates. "How can you have a system in place and not know
where 189 children are?" said Nannette Bowler, director of the
Chance At Childhood Program at Michigan State University and the
Detroit College of Law in East Lansing.

New! September 2,
2002- The killings of four soldiers' wives at Fort
Bragg in just six weeks have forced the Army to take a hard
look at the culture of its elite soldiers that considers revealing
any hint of domestic problems to be a sign of weakness. - In every
case, the husband was the suspect and there was marital discord.
Three of the men, including two who took their own lives, had
returned from Afghanistan as part of the Special Forces.

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole
stepped into the intensifying U.S. debate on Iraq on Sunday, urging
President George W. Bush to seek congressional approval for any
plan to topple Saddam Hussein in order to present a united front. -
"Iraq is like a runaway freight train loaded with explosives
barreling toward us. We can act to derail it or wait for the crash
and deal with the resulting damage," Dole wrote.

As some in the Bush administration press the
case for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, weapons experts
say there is mounting evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
has amassed large stocks of chemical and biological weapons he is
hiding from a possible U.S. military attack. - Jon Wolfsthal, an
analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said
Iraq's inventory is significant.

Comment:What a
joke. Carnegie in bed with the Rockefellers back in 1906 to declare
Jews were "subhuman" and ought not to be admitted to the US. A few
years later, based on some Carnegie-Rockefeller "experts" who gave
testimony to Congress, laws against the admission of Jewish
immigrants to the US were passed along with laws against
"miscegenation." Not long after, Rockefeller began buying all the
Jewish brains in Europe and setting them up in Princeton to build
him a big bomb, while at the same patting Hitler on the back for
adopting the same anti-Jewish, anti-miscegenation laws that were
already in effect in the USA. And now we have another
Rockefeller-Carnegie "expert" ready to testify before Congress.
Wonder how much his lies cost and how many Jews they intend to kill
with their ruse of bombing Iraq?

Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is in the
company of more than 100 world leaders at the Earth Summit in
Johannesburg after telling CNN that Iraq had no weapons of mass
destruction and that Baghdad was willing to prove it to U.S.
congressmen by "technically viable" means. "Everybody in the world
should know that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,"
Aziz told CNN's Late Edition with Wolf
Blitzer.

The trial of a Rwandan colonel alleged
to have masterminded the country's 1994 genocide has resumed in
Tanzania. Colonel Theoneste Bagosora is accused of ordering Hutu
militia to slaughter rival Tutsis during a 100-day orgy of violence
that left an estimated 800,000 people dead.

South Korea has begun a massive clean up
in the wake of the worst typhoon to hit the country in 40 years. -
Rusa dumped up to 89 centimeters (36 inches) of rain within 30
hours in the eastern city of Gangneung, as winds tipped 200
kilometers an hour, before moving out of the peninsula Sunday
afternoon.

Tropical storm watches were in effect from
north of Titusville, Florida, to Fernandina Beach and from the
Savannah River to the South Santee River in South
Carolina.

Computer databases already have a lot on
us: Credit cards keep track of airline ticket purchases and
car rentals. Supermarket discount programs know our eating habits.
Libraries track books checked out. Schools record our grades and
enrollment. - Individually, such technologies appear benign. But
taken together, civil libertarians and some technologists say, they
open the door to unprecedented intrusions into our lives. - What
has changed most since September 11 is the threshold for tolerance
among citizens. "Things that maybe were going nowhere before
September 11 got a lot of push," said Lee Tien, a staff attorney at
the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The plot thickens for researchers
studying the West Nile virus and its spread across the United
States. A suspicious case in Georgia has experts at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention looking at the role of organ and
blood donation. The case involves a woman killed in a car accident.
After her organs were donated and implanted in four recipients, all
got sick and one has died.

New! September 1, 2002 -Once called manic depression,the disorder
afflicted adults. Now it's striking kids. Why? - Bipolar
disorder—once known as manic depression, always known as a
ferocious mental illness—seems to be showing up in children
at an increasing rate. - Nicole Cabezas hallucinated wildly, trying
to jump out of the car, pulling off her clothes and ranting that
people were following her, so this seemed like a pretty good time
to hurry. Nicole, 16, had been having problems for a while
now—ever since she was 14 and began closeting herself in her
bedroom, incapable of socializing or doing her schoolwork, and
contemplating suicide. - The past few months had been different,
though, with the depression lifting and an odd state of high energy
taking its place. Nicole's thoughts raced; her speech was
fragmented. She went without sleep for days at a time and felt none
the worse for it. She began to suspect that her friends were using
her, but that was understandable, she guessed, since they no doubt
envied her profound gifts. "I was the center of the universe," she
says quietly today. "I was the chosen one." - Six months later,
doctors at last reached a diagnosis: she was suffering from bipolar
disorder.

Although the official tally of Americans suffering from
bipolar disorder seems to be holding steady—at about 2.3
million, striking men and women equally—the average age of
onset has fallen in a single generation from the early 30s to the
late teens. - experts estimate that an additional 1 million
preteens and children in the U.S. may suffer from the early stages
of bipolar disorder. Moreover, when adult bipolars are interviewed,
nearly half report that their first manic episode occurred before
age 21; 1 in 5 says it occurred in childhood.

Comment:Please
read our article Noë and The
Ark for a brief account of our own interaction with an
individual diagnosed with Bi-polar disorder. Also, note that this
individual was closely associated with the events recounted in the
Adventures Series. We are left with some puzzlement about such
individuals. Are they crazy because they are manipulated to be
agents of the Matrix? Or are they selected to be "agents" because
they are crazy? Or are they just products of genetic engineering by
the Hyperdimensional Control System? So-called "Indigo
kids?"

Several members of the Quantum Future
School are working on an article that will include some
startling new material delivered by the C's this year regarding
these issues.

In dealing with mass
audiences, said Goebbels,"tbe most primitive
arguments are the most effective". - Goebbels' core philosophy,
based on a tabloid-style populist approach, was said to have been
partly inspired by the ideas of the first Lord Northcliffe. "It was
a mistake", Goebbels once said, "to conduct propaganda in such a
way that it will stand up to critical examination of
intellectuals". He believed that "intellectuals always yield to
strength" and that strength was gained by controlling the
masses.

Comment:I think I have
mentioned somewhere on the site that our son attended a well-known
graphic design school. One part of the curriculum concerns
techniques of advertising. The instructor told the class on the
first day that all advertising - which is essentially propaganda -
was geared to the mental and emotional age of a child of 13. He
produced the studies which showed that this is the average
"intellectual capacity" of the majority of Americans. In short, it
is common knowledge among media spin doctors that the American
people are too stupid to figure out that they are being
manipulated.

I
was certainly distressed to learn this, but it sure explained why
commercial advertising was so "dumb" and why media programming was
so juvenile.

Those of you who have
watched Alex Jones' flick:
The Road to Tyranny, must surely have
noticed that the cops who dragged an innocent woman out of her car
and arrested her in the police tape that was included, were about
as dumb as they come. I could hardly believe that they would pass a
high school history test. How did they get their
diplomas?

However, it occurred to me
that maybe - just maybe - the controllers aren't giving human
beings the credit they deserve. The masses of Americans have been
treated like the frog in the pan of water - the level of their
"dumbness" is NOT innate, but has been foisted on them by the
Control System for the past 50 or more years. It is NOT an
incurable condition, though the cure may be quite painful in the
long run.

Even though Michael
Ruppert, in the following essay, takes a very dim view of the
situation, we here at Cassiopaea continue to think that the future
is open. Who knows what the flapping of a butterfly's wings might
do in nonlinear terms?

No Way Out? - Michael Ruppert writes:
Almost a year after Sept. 11 where are we? In the last year the
Bush Administration and the financial, economic and oil interests
which it serves, have proved their continued ability to move
forward into totalitarianism and naked aggression faster than any
forces of either domestic or international opposition could
organize... Optimistic and valiant, but inexperienced efforts to
fight the juggernaut have started, swirled, eddied and drifted as
the Blitzkrieg war that "will not end in our lifetimes" has not
even so much as looked sideways. Overwhelming evidence of the
regime's crimes in a dozen arenas has been brought to the surface,
and yet each new revelation only spurs the Empire to accelerate its
long-conceived plans rather than slow down. - the criminality of
the economic elites has been so overt as to seem careless about
what they did, and who saw it.

[N]othing has appeared in the form of any organized effort
which, based upon past experience, offers any likelihood of success
in challenging the Bush Administration or those who direct
it.

[There are many who] expend needless energy debating whether
explosives were placed in the towers, whether the planes were
remote controlled, whether an airliner really hit the Pentagon, or
whether maybe Congress will actually do something about any of it.
These debates are worse than rearranging the deck chairs on the
Titanic. They are expediting the demise of people who could
otherwise be constructing life rafts. The proof already exists that
the government lied.

"When you see someone with their head cut off, it is not
necessary to take a pulse."

Suits have been filed by groups of victims' families against
the government or the airlines asking legitimate questions about
what happened on 9-11. These suits will fail completely as the
government has already intervened to control what records are
released in court. Certain members of the classes will be
approached quietly and offered payoffs of one kind or another to
fragment unity, and the lawyers will likely be compromised or worn
out. - Those who go along with the government will be used and may
get something. Those who hold out will be worn down, exhausted,
intimidated and left with nothing.

Even while Congress is in recess, the FBI has stepped up a
probe of certain members of the Senate to find out who dared to
leak to the American people the damning fact that the National
Security Agency had intercepted warnings on Sept. 10 that the
attack was going to occur the next day. Ashcroft's G-Men have moved
to make Senators and their staffs hand over calendars, phone
records and other information that should -- by right -- be
privileged information under the separation of powers. Voluntary
compliance by Senate leaders like Bob Graham, who chairs the Senate
Intelligence Committee, only adds to the covert and overt
intimidation of Congress that has taken place since
9-11.

Two
members of Congress, Democrat Cynthia McKinney and Republican Bob
Barr, who offered open criticism of various parts of the
administration's illegal activities, have been booted out of the
House in a very well planned and executed conspiracy. As different
as night and day politically, the two had one thing in common --
they dared to criticize or question the administration's actions in
the wake of 9-11. They will forever remain an object lesson to any
members who would oppose Caesar.

The
administration has already deployed and committed more than 100,000
combat troops in preparation for the invasion of Iraq, which will
certainly result in tens of thousands of civilian casualties. That
invasion may find it convenient for the U.S. to also occupy our
newest declared (sort of) enemy, Saudi Arabia. Together, those two
countries own 36 percent of all the known oil on the planet. It has
been decided that President Bush need not seek congressional
approval before launching the invasion. [...]

[T]he world stands at the brink of a global event which may
perhaps be the most significant event in human history.

What will be given to European governments and to the American
people is a fragile pretext to sanction something that is going to
happen anyway. At that moment, everything that America once
represented to the world as good will be lost and the U.S. will be,
and in some cases already is, viewed as nothing more than a new
Roman Empire -- naked in its power, unabashed in its greed, and
brutal in the imposition of its wishes. We will have reached that
unique common denominator which has spelled the decline and fall of
every totalitarian empire in human history -- might makes
right.

And
most of the American people, with their bankrupt and corrupt
economy, will welcome cheap oil, while it lasts, and they will
engage in a multitude of psychological and sickening rationales
that will, in the end, amount to nothing more than saying, "I don't
care how many women and children you kill. Just let me keep my
standard of living."

If
this is the best that the human race has to offer, then perhaps we
need an apocalypse. I, for one, am ashamed of my government and
most of my fellow citizens. One year after 9-11 the only ones who
really got it right are the recent demonstrators in Portland, Ore.
who took peacefully to the streets against George W. Bush on Aug.
23, only to be spayed with pepper spray and shot with rubber
bullets. And I'm not sure that even they understand what is at
stake yet.

Comment:Mr. Ruppert is
quite correct in our opinion. I'm not sure if he is aware of the
hyperdimensional nature of the Ultimate Controllers who are driving
the current Regime to set the stage for... what? Please see the
comments at the end of our article:
Comments on the Pentagon Strke, and order our
informative booklet (too hot to put on the website!)
9-11: Countdown to Armageddon

1. Do you believe that the United States was struck by a terrorist
attack on Sept. 11?
2. Do think that the people behind that attack were "Arabs" and
that its "mastermind" was this fellow Osama bin Laden, operating
from a cave in Afghanistan?
3. Do you believe that the way to stop terrorism is to hit them
hard, to hit them at their "bases" in such places as Afghanistan,
and to hit the nations who might sponsor them, like, say Iraq?
4. Do you think that the recent fall of the stock market, and the
weakness in the economy, have been caused by the Sept. 11
attacks?

Well, if you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you
probably are brainwashed! If you answered "yes" to more than one,
you are definitely a "goner."

Brainwashing methods are
relatively simple and classic. First, use the terror itself to put
people into a state of shock, making them more susceptible to
suggestion. Then resort to the "Big Lie" technique to repeatedly
hammer home your psywar message--those affirmative answers to the
questions everyone is asking. Andmost importantly, lie,
by suppressing all counter-evidence.

Media Distortions -Some interesting
presentations of how to "suppress counter evidence" by media
manipulation of images.

[Goebbels] was able, until the very
last minute, to encourage and exploit a blind trust in Hitler and
his genius. It is indeed one of the macabre phenomena of the Third
Reich that even in their country's agony the mass of the German
people remained docile and faithful to Hitler's banner ... In spite
of everything they had experienced, they kept the faith. [p.
133]

He
understood the value of admitting reverses and even, now and then,
errors; his readiness to be thus "candid" was a kind of
knowledgeable wink at his audience -- "Look, I take you seriously.
Let's be frank with one another" -- and enabled him to ensnare them
all the more. The result was that later on, after 1943, after he
had borrowed ... the "blood, sweat and tears" theme of Churchill,
people were ready to believe in the ray of hope which he astutely
let shine through the somber coloring of his speeches. [p.
134]

Even when the terrible end was glaringly obvious to all,
Goebbels still spoke with eloquent, controlled passion, frankly
acknowledging the supreme gravity of the situation while inspiring
hope. He had not lost his ability to rouse his countrymen with
fervor as well as a certain seeming nobility. [...]

In
his final testament written just hours before he took his life,
Hitler named Goebbels as his successor as Chancellor -- a tribute
to steadfast loyalty even to the bitter end. But Goebbels held this
empty position for just a few hours. After he and his wife had
their six children put to death, and with Soviet troops just a
few hundred yards away, on the evening of May 1, 1945, Joseph and
Magda Goebbels ended their lives in the courtyard outside the
Führerbunker.

Contrary to popular belief, Goebbels was successful as a
propagandist not because he was a master of the "Big Lie," but
rather as a result of his fidelity to facts and truth.

"Goebbels' real lies, his conscious lies, always pertained to
mere detail ...," writes Heiber. "Goebbels' lies were more in
the nature of those equivocations and evasions by which government
spokesmen everywhere seek to 'protect' the 'national
interest'." [pp. 134, 135] [...]

The
typical American imagines that if he had been living in Third Reich
Germany, he would not have "fallen" for Goebbels' "obvious"
lies.

Such a self-flattering view is based on ignorance. In his
classic study, Propaganda (New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
1968; Vintage, 1973 [p. 54]), French scholar Jacques Ellul pointed
out that Goebbels' postwar image is itself a propaganda
distortion:

There remains the problem of Goebbels' reputation. He wore the
title of Big Liar (bestowed by Anglo-Saxon propaganda) and yet he
never stopped battling for propaganda to be as accurate as
possible. He preferred being cynical and brutal to being caught in
a lie. He used to say:

"Everybody must know what the situation is." He was always the
first to announce disastrous events or difficult situations,
without hiding anything. The result was a general belief between
1939 and 1942 that German communiqués not only were more
concise, clearer and less cluttered, but were more truthful than
Allied communiqués (American and neutral opinion) -- and,
furthermore, that the Germans published all the news two or three
days before the Allies. All this is so true that pinning the title
of Big Liar on Goebbels must be considered quite a propaganda
success.

Comment: As another commentator
has already asked: why is it that Saddam's possession of any kind
of weapons is seen as such a threat when the same weapons in the
hands of other governments are not? Why is Israel's or India's or
China's nuclear arsenals not seen as a reason for us to go over
there and "pre-emptively" given 'em the old sledge-hammer whack on
the big toe? Why is the West so concerned about Iraq having what
everybody else has? As was pointed out in the article Making excuses for war, Mr. Cheney announced that
Saddam Hussein is a bad man who has chemical and biological agents
and hopes to develop nuclear weapons as well. Well, heck, nobody
really denies that, but most of the world views the prospect
without undue hysteria.

Cheney tells everybody (sounding a bit like Goebbels
constantly repeating himself): "[Saddam] is amassing them to use
against our friends, our allies, and against us." [Once he has
nukes, Saddam would] "seek domination of the entire Middle East,
take control of a great portion of the world's energy supplies,
directly threaten America's friends throughout the region, and
subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear
blackmail."

We
certainly haven't noticed the other countries who have nuclear
arsenals using them to coerce other nations. Israel has them. India
has them. China has them.

What argument is Cheney and the gang - now including Mr. Iain
Duncan Smith - using to suggest that Saddam is less capable of
handling the power of a nuclear arsenal?

Well, because he's so "reckless." That's it. Saddam is a
reckless megalomaniac. Never mind that he must have been exercising
tremendous restraint in the Gulf War because he did not recklessly
and megalomaniacly bring out the purported chemical and biological
weapons that he was supposed to have during that conflict. That is,
of course, if it is true that he even HAD or HAS such weapons as
Cheney and the gang keep declaring. I mean, if he had them, and
he's such a bully, why didn't he use them? Come on Cheney! Hurry
up! What's the answer to that one?

Nope, none of the rhetoric stands up to scrutiny. The US and
its covert Global Elitist buddies are pushing their own agenda and
Saddam is the Straw man they have created to knock down; and I am
reminded of that most interesting remark in the Book
of Revelation:

"Whoever leads into captivity will himself go into captivity;
if anyone slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain.
Herein is the patience and the faith and fidelity of the
saints."

There is, of course, a reason behind this drive to bomb
Iraq... The Global Elite are themselves being driven like cattle
into a corral...

Colin Powell Abandoning the Sinking Ship of
State - Secretary of State Colin Powell has been a good
soldier in public, even as he has had to fight for every small
victory against Administration hawks like Vice President Dick
Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

One of four soldiers suspected of killing his
wife near Fort Bragg this summer had taken the anti-malaria
drug Lariam for service in Afghanistan this year. - The drug has
been linked with severe mental problems including paranoia,
confusion, psychosis and hallucinations and is part of an Army
investigation into possible ties between the killings.

Comment:And we should
trust the government to give our kids shots?

Ten Palestinians have died in 12 hoursat the
hands of the Israeli army during a weekend of violence in the West
Bank. - "It's a dangerous escalation, and the Israeli Government is
completely responsible for this massacre," said Nabil Abu Rdeneh,
an adviser to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, after the Hebron
shootings. - An Israeli Government spokesman said that operations
had been intended to prevent future attacks. "We are seeing
non-stop efforts to kill Israelis everywhere," said Raanan Gissin.
"The only reason there is not more bloodshed is that we are always
pre-empting, day and night." Comment:
Yeah, right! Same thing Cheney keeps saying.

The Following excerpts from a much longer
essay,show the activity of the Hyperdimensional Control System
and how it cleverly maneuvers its playing pieces to create the
dynamic necessary for the next move. What the current Regime is
doing, is founded upon the Legacy of Bill Clinton. It is part of
the "shocking the dog in the cage" technique. Do we think that such
a carefully crafted, step by step maneuver, could be conceived in
the minds of the Human Global Elite? Perhaps, but not likely. There
is someone - or some "Thing" - ultimately at the top of the pyramid
of the "Illumnists." Perhaps that is why he/it is represented as an
"EYE" on the pyramid on the dollar bill?

Read how the American people have been manipulated culturally
and socially to accept everything the current Regime does - to lay
down like the dog in the cage and just give up.

Consider, for a
start, the recent case of Rigoberta Menchu.Ms.
Menchu is the Guatemalan woman who was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1992 for her autobiographical account of her
family’s mistreatment by the Guatemalan army during that
nation’s civil war. Political radicals consider
Menchu—a Mayan, a peasant, an activist, a woman—to be
today’s "preeminent Third World witness." There is only one
problem: the central details in her heart-rending autobiography are
bald-faced fabrications.

O.K., the Nobel committee and the rest of the world were
duped. That happens. But with the real truth now having come to
light—and no one disputes that Menchu’s book is full of
falsehoods—surely the professors and politicians who
previously celebrated her will set the record straight, right?
Wrong.

The
appalling fact is, activists and garden variety academics are
falling all over themselves to excuse and rationalize
Menchu’s lies. "Faculty members...say it doesn’t matter
if the facts in the book are wrong, because they believe Ms.
Menchu’s story speaks to a greater truth about the oppression
of poor people in Central America," reports the Chronicle of Higher
Education after interviewing many U.S. academics. "Even if she
didn’t watch her little brother being murdered, the military
did murder people in Guatemala," reasons Wellesley professor
Marjorie Agosin. "Indian people speak collectively...she expressed
the voice of the collective conscience," explains Communist
intellectual Arturo Taracena to the New York Review of Books. To
impose Western standards of honesty on indigenous people, you see,
is racist imperialism.

Confronted with the evidence of her misstatements, Menchu
claimed the right to redefine reality. "My truth is that my brother
was burned alive," she told the Washington Post.

Menchu’s unmasking put author Joanne Omang in mind of an
earlier betrayal of truth that had troubled her: When I was a
Washington Post correspondent in Argentina in the mid-1970s, a
London newsletter reported that leftist guerrillas had marched
through a certain Buenos Aires suburb while residents tossed
flowers from the balconies. I knew this had never happened and
canceled my subscription. The editor called to argue. He said it
was "political truth": If the guerrillas had marched, the
residents, secret supporters all, would certainly have tossed
flowers. [...]

The
problem is, once that particular gate is open, everyone wants to
use it—fudging or completely re-writing truth in order to
further their own favorite causes. [...]

"Postmodern" thinkers unabashedly claim the right to concoct
their own personal definitions of reality and falsehood, of truth
and lie. Sometimes, this is just silly—as when they insist
that things like one’s sex or the laws of physics are just
"social constructs." Other times, this becomes a dangerous license
for disruptive propaganda or sociopathic behavior.

Certainly the intellectuals who laid the groundwork for
today’s truth-denying postmodernists were an anti-social lot.
Philosophical godfathers Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger
inspired proponents of both Communism and Fascism (indeed,
Heidegger was a Nazi enthusiast). Michel Foucault was a
sado-masochist who achieved sexual frisson by inflicting pain and
wrote books celebrating mass murder. Jacques Derrida was an
intentional obscurer and abuser of language in just the ways George
Orwell warned us were dangerous.

Prior to becoming a celebrated Yale professor Paul de Man was
a Nazi collaborator in Belgium, and he was a habitual, serial liar
and manipulator throughout his life. As David Lehman (who is
featured later in this magazine) helped uncover, de Man falsified
his resume, skipped out on personal debts, abandoned his sick wife
and three young sons, abused the trust of friends, and repeatedly
evaded truth and responsibility. Mary McCarthy described him as
possessing "an intelligence that’s outdistanced his morals."
His eldest son compares him to a confidence man. As one very old
text puts it, ye shall know them by their fruits.

Of
course, it’s one thing to have a confidence man whose
intelligence has outdistanced his morals in the Yale French
department, and quite another to have him in a place like the White
House.

Bill Clinton is hardly our first President to lie. But he is
certainly our first President to lie with so much fervor,
frequency, and indecent earnestness. Mr. Clinton doesn’t just
dodge and weave in public in the usual political fashion. He is a
virtuoso deceiver of everyone around him. He lies about trivial
things as well as consequential matters. He piles lies upon lies.
What has been variously referred to as his "want of candor," his
"economy with the truth," his "situational veracity" will go down
in history as his distinguishing characteristic as President.
[...]

Any
fair-minded person can understand how Mr. Clinton might have made
one of his initial mistakes. What’s hard to fathom, and
impossible to accept, is the way he subsequently added dishonesty
to dishonesty, steadfastly refusing to ever come clean, never
waking up in the morning with an irresistible urge to confess,
express contrition, and take honorable responsibility. Instead he
heaped up more and more deceptions until even the Washington Post
spluttered, "it is difficult to find a single honest sentence" in
his arguments. [...]

The
President’s assistants have been almost as instrumental as
their boss in elevating the role of falsehood in the White House.
Paul Begala’s first rule of politics, Bob Woodward tells us,
is "Define and create the reality that you want." Never worry about
facts; project an image to the public. This is pure postmodernism,
the very same impulse that moved a literature professor to say that
"reality is what is accepted as reality, what is useful," and that
postmodern man aims "not to discover reality but to manipulate it."
[...]

Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels was a brilliant man with
a Ph.D in literature and history, and many of his ideas will sound
very familiar to contemporary ears. He counseled propagandists to
go beyond crude lying and employ different kinds of truth: half
truths, limited truths, truths out of context. The propagandist
must reserve the right to define his own terms, he insisted. And
"when it would be dangerous to let a fact be known, the modern
propagandist prefers to hide it, to say nothing rather than to
lie." About one-fifth of all press directives given by Goebbels
between 1939 and 1944 were actually just orders to keep silent on
one subject or another, Ellul reports. [...]

Goebbels sounds most contemporary when he says (Begala-like)
that "We do not talk to say something, but to obtain a certain
effect." And the propagandist doesn’t worry about being
consistent; claims can even be contradictory for different
audiences. [...]

Bill Clinton has startled many of us by practicing the famous
dictum of Hitler himself: The bigger the lie, the more chance it
will be believed. That was exactly his tactic in turning to the
camera, saying "I want you to listen to me," wagging his finger,
and then exclaiming indignantly, "I did not have sex with that
woman." That statement was delivered with such passionate,
shameless intensity that most of us who saw it assumed there must
be something wrong with Monica Lewinsky’s story. Even if you
didn’t trust or like Clinton, he couldn’t be psycho
enough to say that, in that way, if it weren’t true. Could
he? [...]

"The propagandist must insist on the purity of his own
intentions and, at the same time, hurl accusations at his enemy,"
says Ellul. This, of course, is where the Clintonites succeeded
most brilliantly—in their demonization of first Ken Starr and
then the congressional Republicans. [...]

"In
today’s intellectual climate, the person who reveals the
truth...receives the blame, while the one whose lies are revealed
becomes more popular than ever," observes Ed Veith, one of this
issue’s contributors. This has recently happened not only to
Starr and the G.O.P. but also to the individuals who blew the
whistle on Rigoberta Menchu and Mike Davis. And these verdicts were
not accidents of public opinion but the product of determined
campaigns of vilification. [...]

Shamelessness can provide a great tactical advantage in
turning around public disapproval. Time and again Bill Clinton gets
away with whoppers that more cautious and truth- ful people would
be too terrified even to launch. Literally two days after a
credible woman gravely revealed on national television that he had
left her in need of an ice pack after a sexual assault, the
President was on the airwaves announcing "$223 million in grants to
help detect and stop violence against women." Abusers must be held
accountable, he had the nerve to tell us.

Similarly, recall Clinton’s immediate response when he
and Al Gore got caught in egregious violations of current campaign
finance laws: They defiantly argued there was no "controlling legal
authority" to stop them, then unblushingly made political hay on
the theme of how dreadful campaign finance violations are. Finally,
they called sanctimoniously for additional, stricter
laws—after having spent the previous two years massively
abusing the current ones! Breathtaking. [...]

The
President admitted to Monica Lewinsky (as she divulged in her
Barbara Walters interview) that he’s been a serial liar since
childhood.[...] Michael Kelly suggests the President has an
"essential character flaw" that is even deeper than his dishonesty.
- Clinton’s mother, Kelly notes, taught him that "people are
not to be judged by their actions, but are endlessly free to
reinvent themselves, to be whatever the moment demands." He quotes
from her autobiography where she explained, "The past is
irrelevant.... Whatever’s in someone’s past is past,
and I don’t need to know about it.... When bad things do
happen, I brainwash myself to put them out of my mind."

There is a certain brassy impressiveness to the way the
Clinton White House has wielded the tricks of propaganda to win
political battles. But there is also great danger to the nation.
The problem with importing propaganda techniques into democratic
politics is that they quickly lead to a thoroughly false and
undemocratic politics. Ellul concluded from his studies that, once
launched, the propaganda process tends to become irreversible, and
he warned that no one can give himself over to propagandizing, even
in a "good cause," without being damaged in the process. As a
British observer cautioned years ago, "the lie on the lips becomes
the lie in the soul." [...]

We
note in this issue that for four decades now there have been
intellectual trends underway which blur truth and encourage lying.
We see the results in universities, in politics, in professions
like the law, in popular entertainment and the media, even in
places like business.

Clinton’s most damaging legacy will be the hard forward
shove he has given this trend toward selective truth-telling. He
has, as George Will puts it, cultivated American indifference to
the facts. You could see this in microcosm in the impeachment
votes: As the evidence was laid out, Senator Robert Byrd stated he
had "no doubt" the President "lied under oath" and believed he also
"did indeed obstruct justice." Senator Charles Schumer said, "It is
clear that the President lied." Congressman Robert Wexler observed,
"The President lied under oath.... His actions are indefensible."
Yet when it came to vote, none of these men stood for punishment.
Clinton had successfully cultivated their indifference to the fact
of his guilt. [...]

The
President has corrupted millions of Americans into putting their
logic and their evidence-sorting abilities into the service of
ideology rather than truth. He has made it an article of the
liberal faith that the desirability of telling the truth now
depends upon a host of secondary factors, like whom you are talking
to, and whether or not he shares your "causes." [...]

Adlai Stevenson, a paragon of the American liberalism that
reigned before postmodernism began its corrosive work, once said
that "those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those
who steal from the public purse." I’m betting that if he were
alive today, he’d say they’re worse.

Indochina floods begin to recede, death toll
rises - At least 31 people have died so far in the Vietnam
Mekong Delta, mostly children who drowned, where homes of 200,000
people became submerged and about 150,000 people had been moved
into newly reinforced residential areas.

Powerful Hurricane Hernan was gathering
force Saturday far off Mexico's Pacific coast but was not expected
to threaten land. - winds of 120 mph. Gusts were clocked up to 150
mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida,
and Mexico's National Weather Service.

Formal satanic worship services have
been suspended by the Kentucky Department of Corrections at the
Green River Correctional Complex while officials work to shape a
statewide policy on the practice. - "We honestly didn't know it was
on the religious calendar," Carnahan said after the Lexington
Herald-Leader questioned the practice. r "We are researching it to
see what we are required to allow under the law. But we've found
information that indicates that satanic services could be a threat
to the institutions, so for now we won't aid or abet satanic
worship," she said.

A judge sentenced six men to death by
hanging Sunday in Pakistan for their roles in the gang rape
of a woman whose brother was accused of having relations with a
higher-caste woman, the prosecutor said. - Two other men were
convicted of abetting the rape. They were part of a 10-person
tribal council that authorized the rape. The other eight members
were acquitted.

Some scientists have suggested nuclear bombs to
deflect a big comet or asteroid from a collision course
with our planet. One researcher has a more novel solution: a giant
air bag. - An atomic detonation would do little to stop some types
of asteroids - computer simulations indicate that such a blast
could split an incoming asteroid or comet into more fragments that
remain on a collision course. - The mathematician proposes that a
spacecraft could approach the object and inflate a bag several
kilometers wide using a chemical reaction to make gas. The probe
would then push the bag against the incoming asteroid or comet. The
bag would distribute pressure evenly and nudge the object away
without fragmenting it, Burchard suggested.

Comment:Why is
this subject an item of such intense, repeating interest? Hmmmm???
Does it tie into the Bush Regime agenda?

Until recently, impacts by extraterrestrial bodies were
regarded as, perhaps, an interesting but certainly not an important
phenomenon in the spectrum of geological process affecting the
Earth. As we have seen, this has only been the case since
Lyell, Laplace and Newton put a period to such speculations.
What seems to have happened is that, through repeated cataclysms,
man has been brought low, relegated to darkness regarding his
history, and at the very point when he began to study and analyze
his environment objectively, religion stepped in and put a
period to such ideas. Velikovsky's work was vilified by
the scientific community, and shortly after, there came an
onslaught of ideas promoting extraterrestrials as the source of
civilizational anomalies and then, of course,
the
famous 10th Planet hypothesis to explain away
planetary disruptions that could not be adequately
concealed.

The
question is, why? What, in the name of all things reasonable,
would prompt anyone to wish to hide these matters? What kind
of sick mind would divert the attention of humanity away from what
is evident all over the planet to those with open eyes, and promote
so assiduously ideas that mislead, misguide, and generally placate
the populace with an assurance that either nothing is going to
happen, or if it does, it will be preceded by a long period of
approach by a body that is well organized and clearly seen, and
that the government can probably "fix it?"

Well, the clue is right there: "placate the populace."
Control.

But, Heavenly days! What kind of lunatics would want to
keep everything under control in that sense if they have some idea
that they, themselves, might be destroyed by the very processes
they are concealing?

Obviously, they don't think so. Obviously, they think
they have a plan. And that suggests that, obviously, they
know a lot more about what's going on, what the possibilities and
probabilities are than the rest of us.
[From Adventures With Cassiopaea, Chapter
30]

Officials Friday
confirmed 24 cases of dengueand two of the
more dangerous hemorrhagic form of the disease in Mexico state,
which borders Mexico City. - Health officials estimate that nearly
3,005 people across Mexico have contracted non-life-threatening
dengue since January. Another 424 have been treated for the
hemorrhagic form. Outbreaks of the disease have also sparked alerts
in Central America - Dengue (pronounced den' gee) is a disease
caused by any one of four closely related viruses (DEN-1, DEN-2,
DEN-3, or DEN-4). The viruses are transmitted to humans by the bite
of an infected mosquito. In the Western Hemisphere, the Aedes
aegypti mosquito is the most important transmitter or vector of
dengue viruses, although a 2001 outbreak in Hawaii was transmitted
by Aedes albopictus. It is estimated that there are over 100
million cases of dengue worldwide each year. - In the America
region, all dengue virus serotypes are now present. DEN-3 was
reintroduced into Central America in 1994 and is now found in
several countries in the region. Since this serotype has been
absent from the Americas for almost 20 years, the population has a
low level of immunity and the virus is expected to spread
rapidly.

A study in mice raises the possibility that
carbohydrates in human tissue may be a target of the
misguided immune system attack that results in rheumatoid
arthritis. - xperts have long known that rheumatoid arthritis
results when the body's own disease-fighting cells attack the
cartilage and joints. The new work suggests that the specific
target of this onslaught is essential carbohydrates in the tissue.
- "This study shows that rheumatoid arthritis may result from the
body's mishandling of its own carbohydrates that, under normal
circumstances, would not be interpreted as a threat," Wang
said.

Comment:As has
been shown by both the Atkins diet and the Blood type diet, people who have type O blood
should eliminate entirely the consumption of starches and sugars
(simple carbohydrates). Most people ARE type O (which is curious
since it is a recessive trait). The SAD (Standard American Diet)
seems fiendishly designed to perpetrate and perpetuate the many
ills to which the type O individual falls prey when eating those
foods his body was never designed to consume. Vegetarian eating
styles are also not health enhancing for the type O individual. One
thing is certain: when your health is compromised by your diet,
your thinking capacities are diminished. You may seek medical help
and succumgb to allopathically induced conditions which further
diminish your thinking capacities. If you can't think, you can't
act appropriately - you are nothing but a Meat Puppet. And the
Control System has you where it wants you.

Oh Goody!
Starting next week, psychiatristswill be able to
prescribe an eagerly awaited new antidepressant called Lexapro.
It's being promoted as more potent and possibly safer than older
competitors -- but there's little evidence that it's much better. -
Lexapro promises to be a big player in the $12 billion
antidepressant market. - 19 million Americans are afflicted at some
point in their lives with depression.

Comment: Gee! We can't imagine
WHY?! With a gang of psychopaths running the show and
hyperdimensional Controllers playing games with our heads, it's a
wonder we aren't all in the looney bin! So the deal is this: eat
your carbs and get depressed, then take your Prozac or your Lexapro
and get a good case of liver toxicity, maybe have a few seizures,
and most defintely go back to sleep and stop paying attention to
the man behind the curtain!